Article: The Poetry Man.(Review)

Kenneth Koch brings out this year his sixteenth volume of poetry, Straits, as well as his fourth and most ambitious book on the reading and writing of verse, Making Your Own Days. Welcome return of the poetry man, like the ice-cream man making his rounds in July.

If John Keats is the poet par excellence of autumn, and William Carlos Williams the poet of our American spring, then Koch must be our beachball-bright summer poet. Like that expansive season, he does away with garbed proprieties while making everything in the bare-armed world seem possible. Take off your clothes and jump in the poetry pool! For more than four decades, both as prolific poet and as the ...

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